Concerts

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This is every performance of Coke's music that has so far been traced, from his schooldays at Eton in 1929 to the present, assembled from printed programmes, press notices, Radio Times billings, his mother's household accounts and the composer's own annotations. It is not a complete record and it cannot be: he was played most often in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, sometimes in a converted stable at his own house, and much of that went unreported. There is a gap of twenty-five years between 1987 and 2012 in which exactly one performance has been found. If you know of a concert that is missing, or have a programme, a cutting or a memory of hearing this music, please do get in touch.

1956

Gramophone recital

23rd OctoberAlbert Hall, Nottingham

Performers

Roger Sacheverell Coke (speaker)

Programme

Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No. 1 (first movement)

Rachmaninoff

Cello Sonata (slow movement)

Rachmaninoff

Four Songs

Rachmaninoff

Vocalise

Rachmaninoff

The Bells

Rachmaninoff

Second Symphony (first movement)

Notes

The source writes the last item as 'Rachmaninoff Second Smphony (1st movement)'; it is the Second Symphony.

Source

Guardian Journal, 24 October 1956

Provenance

Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296)

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